Spring 2005 VMS/LT SIG Tape Collection ------ ---- ------ --- ---- ---------- This material is all freely distributable. Once again the VMS and L&T SIGs present their semiannual software collection, this one for Spring 2005. The following are brief abstracts of the areas. (Note: Since the distribution is getting pretty varied, the split between "VMS" and "L&T" parts is not done this time. It was always artificial.) The L&T and VMS Systems SIGs are again producing a combined collection for Spring 2005 The tape is in VMS Backup format in three areas: one each for [05AVMSLT...], [VMSLT05A...], and [DECUSLIB...]. The first is the index saveset (05AVMSLT), comprising around 20000 blocks. The other is the DECUS library catalog in machine readable format (DECUSLIB) and the VAX/L&T collection for Spring 2005 [VMSLT05A...] comprising about 1350000 blocks. INDEX Directory ([05AVMSLT]) ----- --------- ---------- Indices and descriptions of what is on the tapes. [.tools] subdirectory contains tools needed to decompress or unpack some packed items. DECUS LIBRARY CATALOG ONLINE ([DECUSLIB]) ----- ------- ------- ------ ---------- Current machine readable catalog of DECUS library contents as straight text. The BROWSER fulltext retrieval tool is included. Also the DECUS Catalog Information System tool is included. The following are contents of the respective directories in the [VMSLT05A...] Directory Tree ------------- --------- ---- [EMULATORS...] Alpha emulators (such as are available). None vms ready. [GNU...] Gnu C, Emacs, Gnumeric, Gnunet, etc. new free software [NET...] This directory contains code which might be of some interest, off the net. CDRTOOLS in particular is used to write CD (and by rumor DVD) on other OSs. Some versions work on VMS. UUCP is a copy of vms uucp, and new zip and unzip sources here should build on VMS and add new abilities and better compression. Botan is a crypto tool. Bochs is an x86 emulator for generic machines and WINE is a windows emulator that runs on x86. Some versions of Bochs have been reported to work on VMS in the past, albeit slowly. XPDF is a .pdf viewer. [SAMBA...] SAMBA is a system which allows systems to communicate using SMB or CIFS protocols (used by MS Windows for network communication) thus permitting sharing either way of printers and disks with such systems. (The VMS client is however a utility, not a mountable filesystem.) [TK...] Files recently added to Hunter Goatley's collection CSVSEARCH - search comma separated variable data files FLIST - File and directory manager (fullscreen oriented) GBLSEC_SDA_VMS - global section info MAILSYM - mail symbiont for mailing files to yourself via PRINT MBU - mailbox utility. Manipulate VMS system mailboxes from command line RSYNC_2_5_6_PRE_1_SRC - synch class libs from CMS (VMS pieces) [VU...] VMS things off the net This area has lots of useful material that builds on VMS with sources and binaries where possible. Among the items here: Antiword - read MS Word documents AUTOCONF - configuration generator like unix one, for VMS BLISS- partial Bliss compiler from FreeVMS effort BZIP2- better compress utility, compresses smaller than gzip CURL - get ftp or http served files off web, restart partial transfers till done GNV - unit / gnu like tools for VMS Ghostscript - display Postscript on screen or printer for non postscript devices FreeVMS - VMS rebuilt for x86, partial effort so far. Based on Linux sources but builds VMS APIs. Imagemagick - displays / manipulates images in many formats Mac64 - macro64 (assembler for alpha) (freeware) MySQL - relational DBMS, built for VMS OpenSSL - lots of cryoto routines and certificate generation ability WGET - get http or ftp served data, remote mirror of sites, will keep trying till it gets all of a file (picks up from where a transfer failed). Xscreensaver - lots of great display hacks and screen saver for Xwindows including VMS (obviously many others. Documents present generally.) [WWW...] WASD web server and utils This area contains a VMS web server and associated utilities, recent distribution.